General Zachary Taylor nodded with satisfaction as he looked at Victor and James, who had childish faces but sharp and determined eyes.
"Awesome young men, tell me your names!"
Victor glanced at Zachary Taylor and replied in a neither humble nor condescending manner.
"Victor Logan!"
Zachary Taylor nodded when he heard this, and then looked at James next to him.
"What about you?"
James' eyes flickered when he heard this, and finally he said his original name.
"James Howlett!"
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Just five days after Victor and James successfully joined Zachary Taylor's troops, Zachary Taylor led a mixed force of 3,000 new and old soldiers under his command to leave their original stronghold and head towards the U.S.-Mexico land.
Deep in the disputed area, they continued to advance a large distance towards Mexico and began to build the Fort Texas Fortress.
On April 25, a Mexican army of 1,600 men surrounded a 63-man reconnaissance team under Zachary Taylor near Fort Texas. The besieged American troops were either killed, wounded or captured, and no one was killed.
Spared.
However, Victor and James were not in this team, so they were not able to participate in this conflict.
The hostilities that took place around Victor and James can be said to be the beginning of the Mexican-American War.
Since then, the situation in the disputed areas between the United States and Mexico has become tense. Both the United States and Mexico have begun to mobilize large-scale troops, deploy troops, and build a large number of defense fortifications in the disputed areas. The friction between the armies of the two sides has also increased.
More and more, in this disputed area, the smell of gunpowder between the two sides is getting stronger and stronger, and we see that a war is brewing and may break out at any time.
Victor and James felt the increasingly intense war atmosphere around them, and couldn't help but feel excited. They could finally fight to their heart's content!
I just don't know how long I have to wait.
But soon, they had the opportunity to officially fight.
A few days later, the Mexican army sent troops to besiege a US military stronghold.
After Zachary Taylor heard the news, he immediately led his troops to rescue.
On May 8, both sides carried out shelling, and the infantry stood still. Victor and James did not get a chance to fight, so they had to continue to endure. When all the soldiers around them were frightened and looking for places to hide, for fear of the shells falling on their heads, Victor
Te and James just found a place to sit there, letting the shells fall around them, but there was no fear on their faces. Instead, they looked at the battlefield filled with artillery fire with excitement, wishing they could directly face the artillery fire.
, rush towards the enemy's front.
However, Chen Mo had already explained long ago that he must obey the orders of his superiors while in the army, otherwise being arrested for violating military orders would seriously affect the later battle between the two.
As for the cannon fire that filled the sky, the two of them didn't take it seriously. Although the power of the cannonballs was indeed much stronger than that of muskets, don't forget what era this was. 1846, the middle of the eighteenth century, and now European and American armies
The muskets used are generally front-loaded smoothbore flintlock guns, and the bullets are only a little more convenient than those in the matchlock era. Instead of using a gunpowder kettle to add the gunpowder at your own discretion, you can directly wrap a certain amount of gunpowder and lead shot in paper.
When using it, just bite open the paper bag with your teeth and pour it into the gun chamber.
Although it is more convenient than before, there is no essential difference. Even the most advanced percussion guns that have not yet been popularized in the army have only improved the firing method and fired faster, but there is still no rifling in the barrel.
There is always a gap between the bullet and the barrel wall, so the power of the gunpowder explosion is wasted, and the power of the bullet is very limited.
The same is true for artillery. Both the United States and Mexico use smoothbore cannons. There are no riflings in the barrels, and the artillery shells are just iron balls of about five kilograms. The power of the explosive explosion is also wasted. The power of the artillery shells is far from being comparable to that of the artillery.
Compared with the artillery of later generations, although the shells fired can cause great damage to ordinary people and turn the soldiers hit into bloody remains and broken arms, they hit Vick, whose bones and muscles are much harder and stronger than ordinary people.
It was used on Te and James, but it could not destroy their bodies. The most it could do was crack their internal organs.
But at this time, Victor and James' self-healing abilities are much stronger than before, and no matter how serious their injuries are, they can heal in just a few minutes. Therefore, even if they are hit by these shells, their lives will not be in danger, and even their combat effectiveness will be reduced.
There won't be much of a drop.
In the movie, James was hit in the chest by a cannonball during the Civil War, but he was just thrown away by the force of the cannonball, and nothing happened to him.
Finally, the bombardment that lasted all day ended in Taylor's victory in the evening, and the Mexican army suffered heavy losses.
The next day, Victor and James finally had a chance to fight.
More than two thousand infantrymen under the command of Zachary Taylor launched a charge towards the Mexican army's position. Victor and James finally ushered in the long-awaited battle.
"Come on!"
"Kill them!"
"Kill!!!"
The two men held rifles and, together with other soldiers, roared and rushed towards the enemy. The Mexican army opened fire and attacked quickly. Bullets flew across the air. One by one, the running soldiers were hit by bullets and fell to the ground.
There was no sound, but more soldiers continued to rush forward.
Victor and James took the lead and soon rushed into the enemy's position. The Mexican soldiers also gave up shooting and faced them with rifles with bayonets inserted.
Victor raised his rifle and hit the neck of a Mexican soldier who was rushing towards him with the butt of the rifle. The huge force directly smashed the opponent's neck. The bright red flesh tore and rolled up, and the whole neck instantly became deformed.
His flesh and blood were blurred, and his cervical vertebrae were directly smashed by this heavy blow. His entire head was twisted to one side. With blood spraying from his neck, the soldier fell directly to the ground, losing his mind.
gained vitality.
Victor didn't even look at the fallen body, and without stopping at all, he roared and rushed towards the next target.
Victor and James, who rushed into the local position, were like tigers rushing into a herd. Every time they attacked, an enemy was killed directly by them. However, this was a battlefield after all, and there were enemies everywhere. No matter how strong the two were, they could not
Just like how you faced the fur company's armed purchasers before, you won't get hurt at all.
The U.S. and Mexico started a fierce hand-to-hand battle on this position. As the battle progressed, soldiers were killed one after another. The ground was gradually covered with corpses in different forms of death, and the wounds on Victor and James also